Yeah, waiting for approval is a pain, Brian will usually get to pictures on weekday evenings. Once you have 50 pictures, though, you can request auto-approval and no more waiting!

Anyway, glad to have you!

auto aproval? wow that be so useful! ive been waiting for ever, i got 3 now and i have 7 pending.. also 1 for a girl i want to adobt a lion from but im afraid now that she will pick someone else cuz its taking sooooo long to get my pic thru,

Welcome to Lilymud. Always nice to see new people. Not sure how much of me you will see around, but I do run the Secret Santa on here. We always welcome new people to it. I do mini ones throughout the year as well. (Our next one starts the beginning of May) So anyway ya, I mainly am found around the art project forum.

Anyway nice to meet you. Hope you enjoy your stay with us. Any questions or problems feel free to ask.

Welcome to Lilymud! It's great to see a new face here c: You'll mostly find me in the Lion King discussion board, if you have any crazy theories about any characters or any fun factoids you'd like to share, please join us!

Also Timitu's secret santas are the most awesome thing in the world They're so fun to participate in, so I encourage you to join her May mini-santa! We all look forward to her BIIIIG secret santa around christmastime all year long

Essentially a secret santa in general, everybody involved puts their name into a hat, shuffles it around, draws out a name, and gets a gift for the person whose name they've drawn without telling that person. In this case, Timitu draws the names for you, and you draw a picture for the person whose name you got, all while keeping it a secret c: At the end of the deadline, she'll send the pictures out to the recipients, and you'll be surprised with a picture that somebody has drawn just for you C: It's one of my favorite things about christmastime. The mini-santas are great fun as well, the last one she had was themed, each picture had to be inspired by a song c:

The Secret Santa is sort of like an art trade. But you don't know who is drawing for you. And you must keep secret who your drawing for. But everyone does a picture for someone else, and in return they get a picture from another member who is also signed up. Pictures from the 2011 secret santa can be seen in a slide show format here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpV3PUDP-8Q

This year will be the 10 year anniversary of the Lilymud Secret Santa.

EDIT: Aikachi beat me to it.

When signing up each person posts between 1 and 5 characters that they would like to see drawn. The person drawing for them has to include at least ONE of those characters in the picture. They can choose to do all 5 if they wish but at least one must be in the picture.

The mini ones are a great way to see what it is like. And meet a few other artists. This next secret santa will be a very simple one. I wont give away the theme just yet... but it is specially made so everyone should have no problem getting their picture in on time even though it is close to high school exam times.